New Delhi: Telangana Rashtra Samithi MPs on Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee to oppose the ordinance transferring some villages in Khammam district to Andhra Pradesh for executing Polavaram multi-purpose project. “The number of villages that would be transferred to the residual Andhra Pradesh is over 200, affecting about 2.4 lakh tribal population living in these areas,” senior TRS leader and Rajya Sabha member K Keshav Rao said after meeting President Mukherjee here.
The TRS leader underlined that the seven mandals, which would be moved to Andhra Pradesh were part of the erstwhile Hyderabad regime.
The Centre on Thursday promulgated an ordinance merging some villages and mandals of Telangana into Seemandhra in a bid to deal with resettlement and rehabilitation of those displaced by Polavaram power project.
The ordinance, cleared by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, aims at facilitating smooth resettlement and rehabilitation on part of Polavaram multi-purpose project.
The amendment will enable land for land in the same revenue division where people will be displaced.
